World DynamicsExamination of the structure of countervailing forces such as population growth, food production, capital investment, natural resources depletion, pollution, etc., at world level when exponential growth rate overburdens the environment - simulates world growth trends by means of a large-scale computer model and shows that a global equilibrium could be achieved if social policies and programmes were chosen taking into account the dynamic characteristics of world social systems. Flow charts. |
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From that work has developed a general viewpoint about the feedback - loop struc- ture of systems and their subsequent dynamic behavior . The resulting principles and practices have been finding ever broadening applications .
From that work has developed a general viewpoint about the feedback - loop struc- ture of systems and their subsequent dynamic behavior . The resulting principles and practices have been finding ever broadening applications .
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There may be no realistic hope of the present under- developed countries reaching the standard of living demonstrated by the present industrialized nations . The pollution and natural - resource load placed on the world environmental ...
There may be no realistic hope of the present under- developed countries reaching the standard of living demonstrated by the present industrialized nations . The pollution and natural - resource load placed on the world environmental ...
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The first mode exhibited by the world system in Section 4.2 developed a population decline and a falling quality of life because natural resources were being exhausted . By assuming a technological solution , the system was freed from ...
The first mode exhibited by the world system in Section 4.2 developed a population decline and a falling quality of life because natural resources were being exhausted . By assuming a technological solution , the system was freed from ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | World Dynamics |
| Author | Jay W. Forrester |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Wright-Allen Press, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 1563270595, 9781563270598 |
| Length | 142 pages |
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